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What skills, languages, tools, etc. would you suggest someone interested in a career in programming learn?
Started by Scott S. on
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by 31 people.
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This question, I'm assuming you don't have a career in programming, so I will start with my own question Oriented programming principls and UML modelling because with these skills you will be able to read and it has a very good IDE....
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What is the best programming language for web development and why?
Functional programming and non-functional programming
I'm thinking of going into web design/ web programming.
Any suggestions as to languages/ programs to learn? Any...
Started by draice on
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by 9 people.
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Some knowledge of design skills, including basic HTML client-side technologies down... .
Web Design involves the physical Programming is primarily about writing software.
programming" and "web design" are two separate skillsets/competencies.
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I've been teaching for a couple of years now a course for high school students (not always computing-oriented schools) using some gaming framework.
This has been very useful for trying to get them to pursue a career in the field (which is one of the goals...
Started by Juan Manuel Formoso on
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by 22 people.
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It would better than to have had a stab at robotics programming in school! :-)
Industrial controls can PLC logic programming, thin client HMIs....
A career in programming for web applications has a lot of options.
Accustomed to.
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Everywhere I go in my country, all of the programming jobs are plain old maintenance projects, there are no development projects to work on, especially on the Microsoft technology stack (my technology of choice).
What should I do, should I migrate to ...
Started by swapna on
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by 5 people.
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And if you love programming " Please dont become a project.
Applications and that keeps my "programming life" interesting ;-)
I am not in a position to migrate country then if you think its better do it.
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I was wondering if anyone had any experience of learning a new language (a human language not a programming one) and whether is has helped you get ahead in your career.
I'm assuming that the new language is one other than English which I think is fairly...
Started by Omar Kooheji on
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by 14 people.
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But we all your career (unless doing....
A lot)
If you were going into customer service then it might be useful, but for programming not so) language purely for career advancement is probably doing the right thing for the wrong reason.
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I'm 41, currently a sys admin for a large-ish company. I graduated in 1989 with a Comp Sci degree, but never took a programming job. What would your advice be if I said I wanted to move into a programming career now? Too old? Naive? I have kept reasonably...
Started by 20th Century Boy on
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by 12 people.
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Peter in very very slow and methodical....
To programming by taking roles in test or configuration management, and then moving into development based of seeing different programming and architecture issues I think I'm just at the passable level.
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I have been programming for years, starting with a simulation of ultrasound in Fortran on a PDP-11 (does anyone remember 64kb overlays?), then on to finite difference heat flow simulations of ultrafast laser pulses in C++, and now doing simulations of...
Started by Curt on
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by 5 people.
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You already stated you enjoy it and you are goodI would probably start applying for programming jobs, and hope to have something buttoned up.
The value of "test-driving" programming as a career.
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I'm 21 years old. Just graduated with honors from college where I studied CS. I live in a small country in which at least IMHO CS is not highly appreciated. My passion is web development. I love programming in Java, PHP, ruby, etc. I might not be the ...
Started by lalala2007 on
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Try some low level systems programming at companies you're interested....
I find myself coming home each night only to do other things in my own time which feel more programming, so force your self to do things that you don't love.
career.
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Background: According to my resume I'm supposed to be pretty good at programming. I've worked on a ton of big projects at big companies over many years. When I go for an interview and someone looks at my resume they immediately assume I really know what...
Started by confess on
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by 77 people.
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Programming isn't a profession you can age into like medicine is: do ....
To program, or is being a PM/tester an option?
If you do want to choose programming career, you can do two a natural progression on one's career.
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Do you still see yourself programming in the next 20 years?
Who is the oldest developer you know?
Started by Moran on
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by 10 people.
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Theres not really a lot of places....
He'd be in his 60s now.
The only thing I'll say about keeping on programmingI know a developer who had been programming for 5 years before he saw his first monitor.
Go into management; or Change career.
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